UPDATE: Missing teen returns home

UPDATE: The missing teen from Vidor, 13-year-old Haily Breanne Benavidez, returned home, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff's Office were searching for missing 13-year-old Haily Breanne Benavidez who disappeared sometime overnight from 11 p.m. Aug. 19 to Aug. 20 at 3:55 a.m.

The sheriff's office received a call at approximately 3:55 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, from the missing teen's mother who reported last seeing her daughter at about 11 p.m. the night before at their residence in the 100 block of Briar Circle in Vidor. The youth was last seen wearing black Capri pants and a bluish-green shirt. She is 5-foot tall and weighs about 100 pounds.

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